Common parlance has that there are but five pillars of Islam: the testimony of faith, establishing the prayer, paying the obligatory charity, fasting in the month of Ramaḍān and making the pilgrimage. The famous traditions carrying that wording are reported in almost all notable collections of ḥadith . When it comes to the citation, usually it is the narrations reported on the authority of Ibn Umar, son of Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with them both). It is a continuously recurrent tradition ( mutawātir ) from Ibn Umar and has been reported by a large number of the trustworthy narrators from the successor generation to the companions, the Tābi’een . Curiously though, the actual word pillar (Arabic: rukn , pl. arkān ) is noticeably absent from all the reported texts through which this has come. Furthermore, the word ‘only’ (Arabic: faqaṭ ) is not part of any reported text. Usually in the English translations it is either inserted into the main body of the t
"Thoughts are the greatest wealth of any nation."